interlineation
(-lɪniːˈeɪʃən)
[n. of action f. prec.; see -ation. Cf. F. interlinéation (Littré).]
The insertion of a word or words between the lines of a writing; the word or words so inserted.
| 1692 New Jersey Archives (1881) II. 63 Before ye execution of ye originall Deed there was this interlineation inserted..betweene the Thirty eighth and thirty nynth Lines. 1698 G. Hickes in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 268 The manner of interlineation in many places shews that the Latin exemplars were first written. 1779–81 Johnson L.P., Pope Wks. IV. 32 A former copy, more varied, and more deformed with interlineations. 1877 Dowden Shaks. Prim. ii. 18 In Shakspere's will the only mention of his wife occurs in an interlineation. |